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[LA]
Zendesk AI Effect Happy Hour
Based on our latest insights from the Zendesk AI Effect report, organizations that have embraced AI are delivering outsized impact and delivering better service – leading to happier customers.
Join us on Friday, October 10th at our HQ to dive deeper into these findings followed by a lively happy hour featuring tasty bites, refreshing beverages, and live music.
Spots are limited, register now to secure your spot!
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
GenAI APIs in Motion: Video, Audio & Design at Scale
APIs are the backbone of scaling GenAI.
Join us for a deep dive into how today’s leading teams are building the next generation of enterprise-ready AI experiences—across video, audio, and design.
This session brings together Freepik, Kling, and ElevenLabs to explore how their technologies and APIs are powering creative workflows, enabling seamless integrations, and unlocking scale for startups and enterprises alike.
Agenda:
1. Doors open at 1:30pm, event starts at 2pm.
2. Demos (2pm)
- Tony Pu @ KlingAI
- Matty Shimura @ ElevenLabs
- Jose Ballestas @Freepik
3. Industry Panel with Q&A (3pm)
Moderator: Paula Vivas @ Freepik
- Zheru Liu @ KlingAI
- Matty Shimura @ ElevenLabs
- Alejandro Palma @ Freepik
4. Networking (4pm)
This event is designed for technologists, engineers, and product leaders who want to learn how to leverage GenAI for scalability, adaptability, and evolving market demands. Whether you’re building for startups or enterprises, you’ll gain insights into applying APIs that can future-proof your work.
Hosted at the Freepik San Francisco office, this event offers both technical depth and meaningful connections in the heart of the city.
Light refreshments will be available.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
Pitch4Capital.com tech demo day at LA Tech Week!
🚀 Pitch4Capital Brunch Demo Day: Startup Funding with Stablecoins, AI & Crypto Tax Strategies!
Every paid LA Tech-week attendee ticket includes:
Brunch + beverages and a copy of Buy and Sell Using Bitcoin: Your Guide to Cryptocurrency Transactions E-Book and 9-part Bitcoin video course — everything you need to confidently buy & sell with Bitcoin!
Thursday, Oct 16 | 11:00 AM PT | Beverly Hills
Join us at LA Tech Week 2025 for an exclusive brunch demo day designed for founders, investors, and builders ready to reshape the future of tech funding.
🎟️ Your ticket includes:
Full brunch + beverages
A copy of Buy and Sell Using Bitcoin: Your Guide to Cryptocurrency Transactions our 9-part Bitcoin video course — master crypto transactions with confidence
Let's revolutionize tech funding!
Host: David Whiting
Founder: Pitch4Capital.com & Co-Founder: Phoenix Games https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhwhiting/
Notable guest speakers:
Mohit Kapidaya Co-Founder Phoenix Games https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-kapadiya/
Product @Quranium, Investor, Core Contributor @Ethereum, Building On-chain Smart Trading @Solana and Jiri Fiala, 10X AI Business Builder. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jirifiala/
Event Name: Pitch4Capital Brunch Demo Day
Startup funding using Stablecoins, AI, and Crypto Tax Strategies
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
LAVA (LA Venture Association)
[SF]
[LA]
2025 4th Annual Celebrity Investor Kickoff Breakfast
Venice
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LAVA (LA Venture Association)
The LAVA Celebrity Breakfast is an exclusive invitation-only Los Angeles gathering where industry leaders, celebrities, and investors connect over breakfast in an intimate, high-energy setting.
Hosted by the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA), the event blends a fireside chat covering celebrity approach to venture investing, investor conversations, and networking on the future of investments and technology.
PLEASE NOTE: CRITERIA FOR INVITATION Includes: INVESTORS, CELEBRITIES, CLOSE CELEBRITY AGENTS, MANAGERS, ATTORNEYS or FUND MANAGERS.
There will be a pop-up event after the breakfast featuring K-pop & Beauty Hunters vs. US Tech Demons.
Past guests including the Chainsmokers, Meta World Peace, Marcellus Wiley, and advisors to Tom Brady, Pau Gasol, Pedro Martinez, Rob Lowe, and Rihanna. Stay tuned for the 2025 keynote speakers!
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
From the lab to the range, test is being redefined. Join the teams making it happen.
An evening for leaders at the cutting edge to connect around the future of connected test. Hear from a panel of customers moderated by CEO Cameron McCord, sharing firsthand how they’re scaling test and operations with Nominal. It’s a chance to trade lessons with peers and see why Nominal is becoming the backbone for aerospace, defense, and advanced industries.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
FLIP to FLEX: Building for the Emerging Lunar Economy
FLIP to FLEX: Building for the Emerging Lunar Economy
At this world class panel discussion, you will hear directly from the innovators who are building the foundations of the lunar economy. These experts are working on the critical systems and solutions that will make sustainable living and business on the Moon possible. If you're interested in the future of space development, this is the event to attend.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
Simulation Tech Summit by Blok
We're bringing together leading minds shaping the future of simulation technologies. We’ll explore how cutting-edge advances in agentic AI, synthetic populations and behavior simulation are transforming industries.
Expect dynamic, collaborative discussions where ideas flow freely between participants and speakers. You'll hear from product and engineering leaders, AI researchers and behavioral scientists and between conversations, you'll be able challenge someone to a round of Pac-Man or Galaga in our arcade corner!
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Opps AI, Verizon Wireless
[SF]
[LA]
Cocktails and Startup Dreams
Playa Vista
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Opps AI, Verizon Wireless
Join us at Two Bit Circus 🎮—a video arcade + micro-amusement park in Santa Monica—for the Opps.ai Launch Party featuring our AI Agent Valet.
✨ What we’re showing off:
- AI Agent–Driven CRM
- Opps → B2B Outreach AI Agent
- Product Market Fit AI Agent
If you’re a B2B founder in the GTM stage, a RevOps/Sales leader, a GTM engineer—or just love disco 🪩 + arcade games—this one’s for you!
🎁 Every attendee gets:
- A free copy of Form Your Own Pack
- Free access to Opps.ai
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
AI in Financial Services with OpenAI's Head of Sales (former), a16z, and Elsa Capital
[SF]
[LA]
VC & Founders Happy Hour w/ Qapita
[SF]
[LA]
SF Public Sector Tech Career Fair
XYZ has been investing in the public sector for nearly a decade, backing companies like Anduril, Chapter, Promise, Cape, Nominal, Apex Space, TurbineOne, Ordo, Verkada, and more. We thought SF Tech Week would be the perfect opportunity to bring together a group of early stage operators excited about working in public sector tech - whether that's defense, security, modern social services, health care, climate, etc. - and connect them directly with some of the fastest growing, most successful companies looking to recruit right now. If this describes you, we want to meet you! We'll be adding more great companies soon!
Fill out the brief RSVP and we'll get right back to you! The event will be a mix of short, punchy presentations from the companies recruiting, and good drinks, eats and mingling so we can all meet each other! Brought to you in partnership with our good friends at Pax and Forward Deployed VC - helping people think through their next chapter.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Plug and Play Tech Center, House of AI
[SF]
[LA]
Hot Wings, Hotter Takes: The Founder Roast
SOMA
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Plug and Play Tech Center, House of AI
Plug and Play is turning up the heat at SF Tech Week, where venture capital meets Hot Ones. Here's the rundown:
Spicy wings. Spicier questions. Three investors in the hot seat.
At Plug and Play, we exist to connect founders with the right people, opportunities, and feedback–fast. This time, we’re serving it with sauce. Come hungry for community, hot takes, and the kind of honesty that only kicks in when your mouth is on fire 🔥
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
Founders, Friends & Fermentation, Saku Biosciences
[SF]
[LA]
Lets get the LA Bioeconomy brewing
Santa Monica
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Founders, Friends & Fermentation, Saku Biosciences
Los Angeles is brewing a new kind of future, one where biology is the engine of innovation. 🌱⚗️
This is the first gathering of the LA chapter of Founders, Friends & Fermentation: a community happy hour bringing together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and friends who want to lead the creation of the LA bioeconomy.
The bioeconomy isn’t just about medicine, it’s about building a sustainable world enabled by environmental biotechnology, agricultural biotechnology, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, gene and genome engineering, microbial ecology and the sciences and technologies that amplify their impact.
Together, these fields are shaping a future rooted in biology that can transform:
🌊 Water Tech & Bioremediation
🌱 AgTech & Sustainable Foods
🌍 ClimateTech & Decarbonization
🧪 Industrial Biotech & Biomanufacturing
🧬 Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering
🏗 Novel Materials & Biofabrication
🌳 Environmental Biotechnology
This gathering is about building the bridges between the lab, the startup, the investor, and the community—because biology’s biggest breakthroughs happen when diverse minds connect.
Whether you’re a scientist dreaming about scaling your ideas, an engineer prototyping the future, an investor looking for the next wave of innovation, or simply someone excited about sustainability, this is your invitation to brew the bioeconomy with us. 🍻
✨ All are welcome—like any strong microbial culture, we thrive on diversity.
This event is a part of #LATechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
[SF]
[LA]
Official a16z LA Tech Week Kickoff
SSM Law, Oyster, Sequoia One PEO, CLA
[SF]
[LA]
Let's Grow - Scaling Your Startup After a Financing Event
Union Square (SF)
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SSM Law, Oyster, Sequoia One PEO, CLA
Life after a financing event can be both joyous and well, a lot of work. What do startup founders need to know about how to scale their businesses and teams after they receive venture capital financing?
Join us for a hosted lunch and networking event where we'll be discussing questions such as:
● Negotiating founder compensation and executive termination and exit provisions;
● Onboarding new hires while protecting your company’s IP and competitive advantages;
● Working effectively with your venture investors to achieve business milestones, including scaling revenue to best prepare the company for the next round; and
● How to prolong your financial runway between this raise and the next one, whether through cost-savings measures, bridge rounds, or alternative forms of capital.
Panelists include:
● Lindsey S. Mignano, SSM
● Robert Ravanshenas , Maven Ventures
● Danielle D'Agostaro , WVV Capital
● Akriti Dokania, Ridge VC
● James Wang, Creative Ventures
● Stephen Estes, CLA
Moderator: Matt Hentschel, Sequoia One PEO
Venue Sponsor: SVB
Food and Beverage Sponsors: CLA, SSM, Oyster, Sequoia One PEO
This event may be attended in person (if approved) or via Zoom (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4810347305?pwd=dDhvblA3M1JEQTN1MkkyaEpvZzVjQT09). If you attend via Zoom, please enter the room with your camera turned off and your mic muted.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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